The Archive · 1937

GEN, FRANCO SEEKS FOREIGN AID

Paris, July. 6, 'The Spanish Loyalist news agency, 'Agence Espagne, reporied. here to: day: that Gen, Pranelsco Franco had requested "Herr "Adolf Hitler' Yand Signor Benito Mussolini to "fufniah the Spanish Nationalists with 125,000 men, 600 warplanes, 50 artillery bat-feries and more tanks with which 0 mop up. the entire "northern front within see. months Gon, Franco's request, it was reported, suggested that the relntorcements would permit simultaneous, in-urgent offensives in the Madrid. and fTerruel sectors, Gen, Franco. was Fe-ported to have said that the victorious sault against Bilbao had cost the obols 20,000 men and twenty per ent." of their" equipment—United Press.

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